David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… lamented the lack of success of his Treatise – ‘never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature . It fell dead-born from the press , without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the … merchant, he soon went to France (in 1734), to Paris, then Reims, and La Flèche, where he wrote the Treatise on Human Nature , and most certainly familiarised himself with French philosophy (Malebranche, Descartes, Bayle). This period was … by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A. Box , 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2021), vol. 1, p. 164. 5 . ‘No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its con-sequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with …
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